An eleventh year of blogging
I don’t have an official anniversary date for blogging. I had many false starts, and I spent a good part of 2004 developing the current iteration of the blog...
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The Denisova genome: An unexpected window into the past
The Denisova genome: An unexpected window into the past
A longer timescale for human evolution
During the last few years, the best estimates of the human single nucleotide mutation rate have been cut in half. Until recently, estimates of mutation rate ...
Dynamics of genetic and morphological variability within Neandertals
Genetic evidence from Neandertals may reflect complex population dynamics that a hundred years of morphological comparisons have barely hinted. Neandertal mt...
Human evolution
Human evolution
Human Evolution and Genetics
Introduction
Overdominance and rapid adaptation
Introduction
From genes to numbers: effective population sizes in human evolution
Demography is the engine of evolution. Changes in allele frequencies require differential births and deaths of the individuals who carry the alleles. Under n...
No brain expansion in Australopithecus boisei
The endocranial volumes estimated for late Australopithecus boisei specimens (e.g., after 1.8 Ma) are larger than those of earlier specimens. Elton et al (20...